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Show NOW TREAT SOLDIERS Revel in Baths Once for Millionaire Million-aire Huns. Red Cross Refits Salsburg Watering Place for Rheumatic Roumanians. Bucharest. The famous salt baths of Salsburg. where the millionaires of Austria, Hungary and the Balkan states used to spend their summers, now are curing rheumatic Roumanian soldiers. Stripped of all their luxurious furnishings fur-nishings during the war. tlje Salsburg baths have just been refuted with the aid of the American Red Cross for use as a military hospital for chronic rheumatism rheu-matism resulting from trench war-tare. war-tare. Five hundred soldiers are there, recovering from rheumatism and similar sim-ilar diseases con: racted while mider-goinir mider-goinir tiie hardships of war. In Times of peace thousands of tour ists visited Salsburg, high up in the Transylvanian Alps. southwest of Kronstadt. Many came for the dazzling daz-zling social life. With its magnificent hotels and gay casino. It was perhap the chief show-place of eastern Europe. When the Germans pushed the Itnu manians out of (his district early in the war General Mackensen and his staff took possession of the town and staged luxurious revelry there. When the Germans left they looted the place, stripped the hotels of tapestries, furniture fur-niture and brass fittings. Even the equipment for the medicinal baths was wrecked. I'nder the direction of Maj. Georee C. Treadwell of Albany. N. Y.. and several American physicians. the baths wore refitted sulliciently to care for the soldiers. |